Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gary Waslewski, who threw three straight perfect innings on Saturday, will start for the Sox Wednesday. Dick Hughes will pitch at Fenway for the Cards. If it goes seven. Lonborg and Gibson will have a fantastic showdown on Thursday...
...lately been criticized as much as it has been acclaimed in the U.S., the French have welcomed him as though he were Stanislavsky reincarnate. "The event of the theatrical season," trumpeted Le Monde, and 443 theater folk from 26 countries plunked down $60 each to get the Strasberg pitch. Among the students who enrolled in the four-week course were a Moulin Rouge chorus girl and a psychotherapist, as well as some of the best actors and directors in France, notably Jeanne Moreau, Alain Resnais, Annie Girardot, Delphine Seyrig, Louis Malle, Madeleine Robinson and Jean-Louis Barrault...
...these dreams were quickly shattered when fussy Curt Flood watched a 3-2 pitch miss by inches. Lonborg still had a no-hitter, though, and he retired Maris and Cepeda to end the inning...
...homer, Lonborg took a comfortable 5-0 lead to the mound in the eighth. The buzzing in Fenway rose to cheering when Tim McCarver hit an easy dribbler to Adair at second. After shortstop Rico Petrocelli swept up Mike Shannon's grounder, the cheer mounted to a high- pitch scream. Lonborg sthood just four outs away from pitching the second World Series no-hitter in baseball history...
...sixth, Yaz again led off with a long fly out to left. Scott and Reggie Smith followed with walks, and Cardinal manager Red Schoendienst galloped to the mound to talk to the tiring Hughes. No one was ready in the bullpen, so the bespectacled starter stayed to pitch to Jery Adair. Adair slammed a double-play grounder to third baseman Mike Shannon, who muffed it to load the bases...